Anthropologies of value /

Table of Contents: “…The value of everything and the price of nothingness / Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández -- On the capacity to change the structural parameters of value : the sale of one particular Cook Island Tivaivai / Jane Horan -- Value and the art of deception : public morality in a Papua New Guinean Ponzi scheme / John Cox -- Asbin : a 'has been' of Papua New Guinea highlands gift exchange? …”
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Sinuous objects : revaluing women's wealth in the contemporary Pacific /

Table of Contents: “…Textile Wealth in Tonga / Fanny Wonu Veys -- Passing on, and Passing on Wealth: Compelling Values in Tongan Exchange / Ping-Ann Addo -- Cook Islands Tivaivai and the Haircutting Ceremony in Auckland: Ritual Action, Money and the Parameters of Value / Jane Horan -- Poem: urohs language / Emelihter Kihleng -- Epilogue: Sinuous Objects, Sensuous Bodies: Revaluing 'Women's Wealth' Across Time and Place / Margaret Jolly.…”
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Health change in the Asia-Pacific region : biocultural and epidemiological approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Parker Frisbie [and others] -- Impacts of modernization and transnationalism on nutritional health of Cook Islanders / Stanley J. Ulijaszek -- Mortality decline in the Pacific: economic development and other explanations / Alistair Woodward and Tony Blakely -- Health changes in Papua New Guinea: from adaptation to double jeopardy? …”
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Romantic passion : a universal experience? /

Table of Contents: “…Chisholm -- Love as an experience of transcendence / Charles Lindholm -- Boundaries of love / Jan Collins and Thomas Gregor -- Rethinking heterosexual relationships in Polynesia : a case study of Mangaia, Cook Island / Helen Harris -- Love, lust and found in Nigeria / Leonard Plotnicov -- The madness of excess : love among the Fulbe of North Cameroun / Helen A. …”

Of love and war : Pacific brides of World War II / by Wanhalla, Angela

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Articulating Rapa Nui : Polynesian Cultural Politics in a Latin American Nation-State / by Delsing, Riet

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Fiafia : dances from the South Pacific for children and adults.

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Christianity in Oceania

Table of Contents: “…Davis and Marc Pohue -- Cook Islands and Niue -- Nga Mataio -- Tonga -- Solo Tafokitau -- Sāmoa and American Sāmoa -- Fetaomi Tapu-Qiliho -- Tuvalu and Tokelau -- Teatu Fusi -- Kiribati and Nauru -- Sāmoa Tafia -- Guam, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands and Palau…”
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Migrant ecologies : environmental histories of the Pacific world /

Table of Contents: “…Citrus Schemes and Land Use in the Cook Islands, 1900-1970 / Hannah Cutting-Jones -- Settler-Colonialism, Ecology, and Expropriation of Ainu Mosir: A Transnational Perspective / Katsuya Hirano -- Pearl of the Empire: Conservation, Commerce, and Science in the Tuamotu Archipelago / William Cavert -- From Boki's Beans to Kona Coffee: The ʻŌiwi (Native) Roots of an Exotic Species / Edward Dallam Melillo -- Maunalua: Shifting Nomenclatures and Spatial Reconfiguration in Hawaii Kai / N. …”
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Navigating colonial orders : Norwegian entrepreneurship in Africa and Oceania /

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 5 -- 'Three Black Labourers Did the Job of Two Whites': African Labourers in Modern Norwegian WhalingChapter 6 -- The Consular Affairs Issue and Colonialism; Chapter 7 -- Norwegian Shipping and Landfall in the South Sea in the Age of Sail; Chapter 8 -- Adventurous Adaptability in the South Sea: Norwegians in 'the Terrible Solomons', ca. 1870-1930; Chapter 9 -- Norwegians in the Cook Islands: The Legacy of Captain Reinert G. Jonassen (1866-1915); Chapter 10 -- From Adventure to Industry and Nation Making: The History of a Norwegian Sugar Plantation in Hawai'i.…”
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Understanding Oceania : celebrating the University of the South Pacific and its collaboration with the Australian National University /

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International directory of archives /

Table of Contents: “…Elpatjevskij & V.P. Tarasov); Cook Islands; Costa Rica (Virginia Chacon Anas); Komoren (Said Ahmed Aminata); Kongo (Jean-Pierre Bitoumbou); Elfenbeinküste (Kouassi Missa); Kroatien; Kuba (Luis Frades Santos).…”
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World population policies 2013 /

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Contributors and acknowledgements -- Highlights -- Definitions of population policy variables -- Data availability for policy variables -- Definitions of population indicators -- Data sources for population indicators -- Explanatory notes -- Introduction -- Population size, growth and age structure -- Fertility, reproductive health and family planning -- Health and mortality -- Migration -- Afghanistan -- Albania -- Algeria -- Andorra -- Angola -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Argentina -- Armenia -- Australia -- Austria -- Azerbaijan -- Bahamas -- Bahrain -- Bangladesh -- Barbados -- Belarus -- Belgium -- Belize -- Benin -- Bhutan -- Bolivia (Plurinational State of) -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Botswana -- Brazil -- Brunei Darussalam -- Bulgaria -- Burkina Faso -- Burundi -- Cabo Verde -- Cambodia -- Cameroon -- Canada -- Central African Republic -- Chad -- Chile -- China -- Colombia -- Comoros -- Congo -- Cook Islands -- Costa Rica -- Côte d'Ivoire -- Croatia -- Cuba -- ^Cyprus -- Czech republic -- Democratic people's republic of Korea -- Democratic republic of the Congo -- Denmark -- Djibouti -- Dominica -- Dominican republic -- Ecuador -- Egypt -- El Salvador -- Equatorial Guinea -- Eritrea -- Estonia -- Ethiopia -- Fiji -- Finland -- France -- Gabon -- Gambia -- Georgia -- Germany -- Ghana -- Greece -- Grenada -- Guatemala -- Guinea -- Guinea-Bissau -- Guyana -- Haiti -- Holy See -- Honduras -- Hungary -- Iceland -- India -- Indonesia -- Iran (Islamic republic of) -- Iraq -- Ireland -- Israel -- Italy -- Jamaica -- Japan -- Jordan -- Kazakhstan -- Kenya -- Kiribati -- Kuwait -- Kyrgyzstan -- Lao people's democratic republic -- Latvia -- Lebanon -- Lesotho -- Liberia -- Libya -- Liechtenstein -- Lithuania -- Luxembourg -- Madagascar -- Malawi -- Malaysia -- Maldives -- Mali -- Malta -- Marshall Islands -- Mauritania -- Mauritius -- Mexico -- Micronesia (federated states of) -- Monaco -- Mongolia -- Montenegro -- Morocco -- Mozambique -- ^Myanmar -- Namibia -- Nauru -- Nepal -- Netherlands -- New Zealand -- Nicaragua -- Niger -- Nigeria -- Niue -- Norway -- Oman -- Pakistan -- Palau -- Panama -- Papua New Guinea -- Paraguay -- Peru -- Philippines -- Poland -- Portugal -- Qatar -- Republic of Korea -- Republic of Moldova -- Romania -- Russian Federation -- Rwanda -- Saint Kitts and Nevis -- Saint Lucia -- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines -- Samoa -- San Marino -- Sao Tome and Principe -- Saudi Arabia -- Senegal -- Serbia -- Seychelles -- Sierra Leone -- Singapore -- Slovakia -- Slovenia -- Solomon Islands -- Somalia -- South Africa -- South Sudan -- Spain -- Sri Lanka -- State of Palestine -- Sudan -- Suriname -- Swaziland -- Sweden -- Switzerland -- Syrian Arab Republic -- Tajikistan -- Thailand -- The former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia -- Timor-Leste -- Togo -- Tonga -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Tunisia -- Turkey -- Turkmenistan -- Tuvalu -- Uganda -- Ukraine -- United Arab Emirates -- United Kingdom -- ^United Republic of Tanzania -- United States of America -- Uruguay -- Uzbekistan -- Vanuatu -- Venezuela (Bolivarian republic of) -- Viet Nam -- Yemen -- Zambia -- Zimbabwe.…”
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When culture impacts health : global lessons for effective health research /

Table of Contents: “…Tacking between Disciplines: Approaches to Tuberculosis in New Zealand, the Cook Islands, and Tuvalu / Julie Park and Judith Littleton -- Cultural Epidemiology: The Example of Pari Village, Papua / Ian Maddocks -- Life and Well-Being under Historical Ecological Variation: The Epidemiology of Disease and of Representations / Robert Attenborough and Don Gardner -- Perceptions of Leprosy in the Orang Asli (Indigenous Minority) of Peninsular Malaysia / Juliet Bedford -- A Qualitative Exploration of Factors Affecting Uptake of Water Treatment Technology in Rural Bangladesh / Shaila Arman, Leanne Unicomb, and Stephen P. …”
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Encyclopedia of islands /

Table of Contents: “…Adaptive radiation -- Anagenesis -- Antarctic Islands, biology -- Antarctic Islands, geology -- Antilles, biology -- Antilles, geology -- Ants -- Archaeology -- Arctic Islands, biology -- Arctic Islands, geology -- Arctic Region -- Ascension -- Atlantic Region -- Atolls -- Azores -- Baffin -- Baja California: offshore islands -- Barrier Islands -- Barro Colorado -- Beaches -- Bermuda -- Biological control -- Bird disease -- Bird radiations -- Borneo -- Britain and Ireland -- Canary Islands, biology -- Canary Islands, geology -- Cape Verde Islands -- Caroline Islands -- Caves, as islands -- Channel Islands (British Isles) -- Channel Islands (California), biology -- Channel Islands (California), geology -- Cichlid fish -- Climate change -- Climate on islands -- Cold seeps -- Comoros -- Continental Islands -- Convergence -- Cook Islands -- Coral -- Cozumel -- Crickets -- Cyprus -- Darwin and geologic history -- Deforestation -- Dispersal -- Dodo -- Drosophila -- Dwarfism -- Earthquakes -- Easter Island -- Ecological release -- Endemism -- Ephemeral Islands, biology -- Ephemeral Islands, geology -- Erosion, coastal -- Eruptions: Laki and Tambora -- Ethnobotany -- Exploration and discovery -- Extinction -- Farallon Islands -- Faroe Islands -- Fernando de Noronha -- Fiji, biology -- Fiji, geology Fish stocks/overfishing -- Flightlessness -- Fossil birds -- Founder effects -- Fragmentation -- Fraser Island -- French Polynesia, biology -- French Polynesia, geology -- Freshwater habitats -- Frogs -- Galapagos Finches -- Galapagos Islands, biology -- Galapagos Islands, geology -- Gigantism -- Global warming -- Granitic Islands -- Great Barrier Reef Islands, biology -- Great Barrier Reef Islands, geology -- Greek Islands, biology -- Greek Islands, geology -- Hawaiian Islands, biology Hawaiian Islands, geology -- Honeycreepers, Hawaiian -- Human impacts, Pre-European -- Hurricanes and typhoons -- Hydrology -- Hydrothermal vents -- Iceland -- Inbreeding -- Indian Region -- Indonesia, biology -- Indonesia, geology -- Insect radiations -- Inselbergs -- Introduced species -- Invasion biology -- Island arcs -- Island biogeography, theory of -- Island formation -- Island Rule -- Japan's islands, biology -- Japan's islands, geology -- Juan Fernandez Islands --Kick 'em Jenny -- Kipuka -- Komodo Dragons -- Kon-Tiki -- Krakatau -- Kurile Islands -- Lakes, as islands -- Land crabs on Christmas Island -- Landslides -- Land snails -- Lava and ash -- Lava tubes -- Lemurs and tarsiers -- Line islands -- Lizard radiations -- Lophelia oases -- Lord Howe Island -- Macquarie, biology -- Macquarie, geology -- Madagascar, biology -- Madagascar, geology -- Madeira Archipelago -- Makatea Islands -- Maldives -- Mammal radiations -- Mangrove Islands -- Marianas, biology -- Marianas, geology -- Marine lakes -- Marine protected areas -- Marshall Islands -- Mascarene Islands, biology -- Mascarene Islands, geology -- Mediterranean Region -- Metapopulations -- Midway -- Missionaries, effects of -- Moa -- Motu -- New Caledonia, biology -- New Caledonia, geology -- Newfoundland -- New Guinea, biology -- New Guinea, geology -- New Zealand, biology -- New Zealand, geology -- Nuclear bomb testing -- Oases -- Oceanic Islands -- Orchids -- Organic falls on the ocean floor -- Pacific Region -- Palau -- Pantepui -- Peopling the Pacific -- Philippines, biology -- Philippines, geology -- Phosphate Islands -- Pigs and goats -- Pitcairn -- Plant disease -- Plate tectonics -- Pocket basins and deep-sea speciation -- Polynesian voyaging -- Popular culture, islands in -- Population genetics, island models in -- Prisons and penal settlements -- Radiation zone -- Rafting -- Reef ecology and conservation -- Refugia -- Relaxation -- Research stations -- Rodents -- Rottnest Island -- Samoa, biology -- Samoa, geology -- Sao Tome, Principe, and Annobon -- Seabirds -- Sea-level change -- Seamounts, biology -- Seamounts, geology -- Sexual selection -- Seychelles -- Shipwrecks -- Silverswords -- Sky Islands -- Snakes -- Socotra Archipelago -- Solomon Islands, biology -- Solomon Islands, geology -- Species-area relationship -- Spiders -- Spitsbergen -- Sri Lanka -- St. …”
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School health in Asia and Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Overweight and Obesity and Associated Factors among Adolescents in Wallis and Futuna and Cook Islands (Karl Peltzer, PhD, and Supa Pengpid, DrPH, Department of Research Administration and Development, University of Limpopo, Turfloop, South Africa, and others) -- Chapter 15. …”
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Berg encyclopedia of world dress and fashion.

Table of Contents: “…Kaeppler Photographic Representations of Pacific Peoples, Max Quanchi The Social World of Cloth in the Pacific Islands, Susanne K chler and Graeme Were PART 11: Polynesia Hawaiian Dress Prior to 1898, Linda Boynton Arthur Niue: Dress, Hats, and Woven Accessories, Hilke Thode-Arora Missionary Dress in Samoa, Prue Ahrens Dressing the Body in Samoa, Sean Mallon SNAPSHOT: Ta'ovala and Kiekie of Tonga, Fanny Wonu Veys Barkcloth Body Wrapping in Tonga, Fanny Wonu Veys Dance Costumes in French Polynesia, Jane Freeman Moulin Tahitian Tattoos, Makiko Kuwahara Dress and Appearance in Tahiti, Karen Stevenson Fijian Dress and Body Modifi cations, Roderick Ewins Dress of the Cook Islands, Kalissa Alexeyeff SNAPSHOT: The Mu'umu'u PART 12: Melanesia Bilas: Dressing the Body in Papua New Guinea, Michael Mel Textiles and Dress of the Motu Koita People, Jacquelyn A. …”
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Qfinance : the ultimate resource /

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- Country and sector profiles -- Country profiles -- Algeria -- Angola -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Argentina -- Australia -- Austria -- The Bahamas -- Bahrain -- Bangladesh -- Barbados -- Belgium -- Bermuda -- Bolivia -- Botswana -- Brazil -- British Virgin Islands -- Brunei -- Canada -- Cayman Islands -- Channel Islands -- Chile -- China -- Colombia -- Cook Islands -- Croatia -- Cyprus -- Czech Republic -- Denmark -- Dominica -- Ecuador -- Egypt -- Estonia -- Finland -- France -- Germany -- Ghana -- Gibraltar -- Greece -- Hong Kong -- Hungary -- Iceland -- India -- Indonesia -- Iran -- Iraq -- Ireland -- Isle of Man -- Israel and the Palestinian Territories -- Italy -- Japan -- Jordan -- Kuwait -- Latvia -- Lebanon -- Libya -- Liechtenstein -- Lithuania -- Luxembourg -- Macau -- Malaysia -- Malta -- Mauritius -- Mexico -- Monaco -- Montserrat -- Morocco -- Nauru -- The Netherlands -- New Zealand -- Nigeria -- Norway -- Pakistan -- Panama -- Peru -- The Philippines -- Poland -- Portugal -- Qatar -- Romania -- Russia -- Saudi Arabia -- Seychelles -- Singapore -- Slovak Republic -- Slovenia -- South Africa -- South Korea -- Spain -- St.…”

Sinuous Objects.

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